My Cup Runneth Over

I have received showers of blessings. Friendlyfairytales has received so many lovely comments, praise, support and attention, that awards seem like icing. Of course, I’ve always liked icing. 🙂

The rules are partly about sharing yourself. I’m sharing something very personal today.

The Psalms were some of the earliest spoken poetry I ever remember hearing. My beloved mother passed away when I was four years old. Perhaps my imagination provided me this, but if I have any memories of her voice left, it would be of her saying these words, giving me an abiding love of poetry and also a sense of security beyond my own family:

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul…

My current quest for combining poetry, nature and stories harkens back to those early, peaceful memories of safety. In the spirit of thankfulness for blessings, past and present, I want to, yet again, share a brand new movie (my third ever!! I hope they are improving!!), made by my kids and I, called Water of Life:

Thanks to the Mobius Strip for the Super Sweet Blogging Award. Dreamwalkeramrita is a great artist and writer, and her blog is worth a visit.

Thanks to Reocochran for gifting friendlyfairytales a whole bouquet of awards from which I could choose, and she told a lovely story about the bouquet she carried at her first wedding. Since I already have received all these awards, instead of gathering up those tokens, in her honor, I’ve made this acceptance token:

Thanks to Ajaytao, who visited me with a Super-Sized Award Portion, and I’ll put the icons up because they are new to me!! Many bloggers already know Ajaytao, but if you don’t, you are in for a real treat. He has a loving, wise vibe surrounded always by beauty in thought and nature.

Notes on Awards: Liebster means dearest in German, and this is given to newer bloggers. Semper Fidelis means always faithful in latin and represents fidelity and love between blogging friends. The others are pretty self-explanatory.

Thanks to Terry1954, whose goodness shines through in every post, during the good days and the bad, while caring for her brother Al. I’m honored to receive an award she has created, the Excellence Award:

If I follow all the rules, I would be posting awards, sometimes several a day, and I would have no time for writing and creating, and soon I would be sad, and getting awards would feel burdensome. Plus I would bore all of you with the minutiae of my life answering all the questions. I do want to share the love with other great bloggers who have given generously to me of time and attention, and who daily make my cup runneth over with joy and love. If I haven’t named you, it is simply dinner time and I ran out of time. I also can’t name over 600!!

To all the lovely and talented bloggers nominated below, I give any awards they have not received above, and I also give my own created award, the You are a Miracle Award, because you are! To me, you have been the most amazing, encouraging and talented community. I could not have imagined a better world to join.

If you maintain an award-free blog, don’t feel any regrets, this is just my wish to share the love with you. No obligations need accrue, no dire events follow from not accepting. Please do share the love with others if that is your way. And have the loveliest of lovely days!

A few flowers from my wanderings to thank all my readers, near and far:

May kindness and mercy follow you all the days of your life and may you live happily ever after. 😀

The End (for today)

With great affection, Brenda

Copyright 2013 Brenda Davis Harsham

Note: The video Water of Life is dedicated to my mom, who I believe would have loved my blog.

Congratulations Brenda, and what a lovely, heart warming post. My kids and I absolutely loved the video! Very well done to you and yours and so lovely you are able to create beautiful things together. Many beautiful blessings on your day lovely lady 🙂

I love coming back to this post, seeing your lovely token of appreciation and made for me award nomination! I love the Bouquet of Awards Symphony of Color since it meant about my bouquets at my first wedding. I am grateful for your gift of this and visit this often!

When I was a kid the Bible disturbed me, but when I really read it as an adult I realized that my fear was unfounded and that I’d deprived myself of the greatest inspiration I could ever have. I love when people are so open about their faith. Also love people who love fairy tales and happy endings.

You know I’m tempted daily to do the same. Then an idea occurs to me for a new award theme or a new video… Gives me a giggle. You shouldn’t do it unless you want to, though. I’m trying to make each award posting heartfelt or funny or both. Cheers, Brenda

I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to start going through the awards on my blog on Monday, as I am spending time this weekend restructuring my blog content. I’m sure you’ve done it before but it is very time consuming but well worth it. Again, I cannot express to you how happy you made me and clearly some of the other bloggers that have commented here. You have a wonderful energy about you 🙂

You take all the time you need, girlfriend! Living is what matters! I’m so happy to make others happy, and to increase joy. It should be my motto: increase joy. The beauty of it is, it all rebounds to me again, making me happier than I imagined. Have a great weekend, Laurali!! Hug your kids lots! With a big smile, Brenda

A job well done! 🙂
Thank you for explaining the reasons for the awards and how to go about it. I am in the same predicament right now but as you know I want to share the gift to as many bloggers as possible. I may procrastinate writing award posts but I will write them finally. 🙂
Much appreciated for the new awards. I do not know which to choose except the sunshine award which is my favorite. 🙂
Thanks again for the thought.

You get the Excellence and You are a Miracle with no strings, and whichever of the others that you want. The sunshine is a good one for you, if you want it! You deserve them, you are a hard-working, great writer. 🙂

NOW I understand more about you…and I understand why you’re able to understand so much about the others…..
However, the post is just beautiful!! The beauty of simlicity….
Have a wonderful day, Brenda!
Warmly, Luana

I had a hard childhood, but I have built a beautiful life for myself. I’m the phoenix, reborn. I understand the pain and sadness of others, and I’m unafraid to say so. I think it helps other to feel not so alone. And me as well. Thanks, Luana, you are a beautiful person! Have a terrific weekend. I love that you used “Warmly!” Affectionately, Brenda

This was outstanding! I especially loved my token of cup runneth over, and also the film was so sweet and moving. I am proud of you for sharing your personal story and moved beyond words, too. The words of Psalms are awesome, I can never hear them without some kind of “goose bumps” or teary eyed reception. I will always check back on this post, my future one to rest, relax, find peace and take comfort in the company of my dear friend, Brenda! This was the best awards acceptance post ever! Thank you for my special part (again.) Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend with your talented family!

Lovely !
Hi ! Congratulations !
I nominated you for The I Love Your Blog Award and The Liebster Award and
Because You’re Fantabulous Award.
You do not need to follow the rules of the awards. You are free !
Please visit my award page.http://angelartstar.wordpress.com/award/
Best wishes.

I’ll tell my kids that you like the video, and they will be thrilled. 🙂 No worries on the awards, but I am sad that you are hiding your light. Still, transcendent thanks are more than enough love shared for this happily ever after. Take care, Elephant! Brenda

Brenda, thank you so much for nominating me! I am so honored that you would also include me in your special miracle award. I actually stopped by here earlier and had read this and didn’t realize my name was on here until you stopped by. You’re the best! I’m so glad that I’ve met you 🙂

Welcome back, and so glad I did the notifications then. It takes forever to visit everyone, and post all the comments, but it’s always worth it in the end. 🙂 And I get to read more talent along the way.

Well done! I’ll have to dig around to find videos one and two..it’s so cool you made it with your kids thus making them little portfolios of work too. Awesome. This is going up on my list of things to do with Z..:)

I suppose these memories explain why you have found the reality in fairy tales and why there’s so much light in your stories! I completely agree you deserve all these awards! It’s nice to know there are so many fantastic people around!

Well done, Brenda, both on all your awards and on another fab video. Remember when you said you probably wouldn’t do another. Back the in the, well, a few weeks ago! Beautifully done. Many congrats again. x

Och, bless. Now you can encourage them with their practice sessions and say, ‘Well, whoever practises most…..’. Many bright sides and bonuses. 🙂
Funny thing about my memory is I can remember conversations practically verbatim and can’t remember what I had to eat yesterday. That sort of memory. 🙂 x

Thanks! In my cellist’s defense, my violinist had already played it with his orchestra for a year, but water music just seemed like the right piece. 🙂 And my cellist hadn’t played much all summer. Had to light a fire. 🙂